Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of a President put Haiti at the mercy of its ambiguous constitution. Article 81, an all-things-to-all-men clause, provides that replacements for an elected President who is missing for any reason shall be drawn from among Supreme Court justices in order of their rank and seniority. Six of the seven presidential candidates argued that the elected President, i.e., Magloire, had already been replaced, i.e., by Pierre-Louis, and that therefore the constitutional recourses had been "exhausted." They favored naming a "revolutionary" President to stand in until elections. But Déjoie, the exception, insisted that...
With the ILA's top leadership recommending acceptance, ratification by the rank and file was considered routine...
...group includes many chancellors, vice-chancellors, and deans of faculties. Others are of professorial rank. It is not yet known which of the Indian educators will be at Harvard...
...next consistory, Montini will surely be made a cardinal, and that should normally mean a red hat also for Tardini, now pro-Secretary of State. But Tardini refuses to be a cardinal; he has all the power and honor he wants, feels that the ceremonies attendant upon the rank of a prince of the church would interfere with his work. A red hat for Montini, without one for Tardini, might be misinterpreted as papal favoritism. Result: a minor deadlock...
...last leader of the Polish underground, and for the first time fully tells the story of the thousands who died in a futile effort to free Poland. At first, the politically ill-assorted, mutually suspicious underground leaders fell easy prey to the Germans. The flamboyance of the rank and file who took to wearing "uniforms" of top boots and padded jackets also led to wholesale arrests. Yet out of blundering and indecision, the stubborn Poles whipped together perhaps the most potent underground fighting force in Europe. Author Korbonski, a lawyer, had charge of communications, and tells in compelling detail...